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APPLICATION FILED APR. b. 1916.

1,196,478, Patented Aug. 29, 1916.

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HENRY J. PAIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Application filed April 6, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. PAIN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

At the present time when a greater part of so-called civilized world is at arms everyone, even children, is interested somewhat, at least, in warfare.

The object of my present invention is the provision of simple inexpensively constructed toys for the amusement of children and in carrying out the same 1 preferably employ a sheet of suitable material on one surface of which is pictured a battleship, a fort or other representation having armament of one kind or another, and the sheet suitably provided with holes or apertures representing the mouths of the guns adapted to receive harmless toy fuses each so constructed that when lighted at one end it will burn emitting intermittently flashes of light in such a manner as to represent the firing of a gun.

In the drawing, Figure 1, is an elevation of a form of toy illustrating the mouth, and Fig. 2, is a partial cross section illustrating the manner in which the fuse is inserted in any of the apertures representing the mouths of the guns.

As illustrated in the drawing the toy, as a new article of manufacture, comprising the present invention, is made of a sheet of cardboard, asbestos, paper or other similar material indicated at 10 and having on one surface thereof a representation of a battleship as shown at 11. It is understood, howver, that while as herein indicated I have illustrated the invention as applying to a battleship any fortification may be illustrated and used for the same purpose in a toy. In any form of the invention a plurality of holes 12 are provided in the sheet so that each hole represents a mouth of a gun as shown at 13.

In conjunction with the representation Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug, 29, 1916. Serial No. 89,352.

of the battleship or any fortification I employ a fuse shown at 14:. This fuse is made of a mixture of any well known pyrotechnic material and any slow burning substance, this mixture being placed in a suitable wrapper preferably made of paper with the ends twisted as illustrated in the drawing so that the same may be inserted and supported at one end in any one of the holes 12 in the sheet which may be maintained in an upright or nearly vertical position by a brace 15, of any desired form suitably attached to the reverse side thereof. In the use of the toy after the same has been set in position and the fuses are placed therein, one or more of the fuses may be lighted and as hereinbefore stated each fuse burns slowly due to the slow burning material and intermittently emits harmless fiashes of light to represent the firing of a gun.

I claim as my invention:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a toy comprising a sheet of suitable material having armament pictured on one surface thereof and provided with an aperture representing the mouth of a gun for receiving a toy fuse so constructed that when ignited it emits a series of intermittent flashes of light.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a toy comprising a sheet of suitable material having a battleship represented on the obverse side thereof and provided with apertures to represent the mouths of the guns of the ship each adapted to receive a toy fuse which when ignited emits the series of intermittent flashes of light.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a toy comprising a sheet of suitable material having a battleship represented on the obverse side thereof and provided with apertures to represent the mouths of the guns of the ship each adapted to receive a toy fuse which when ignited emits the series of intermittent flashes of light, and means for supporting the sheet in position for use.

Signed by me this 21st day of March, 1916.

HENRY J. PAIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe "Commissioner of la'tents, Washington, D. G. 

